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Some of Cambridge’s most vulnerable populations—the mentally ill and the elderly—will soon face a dramatic reduction in health services as a result of major budget cuts to the Cambridge Health Alliance, Dennis D. Keefe, the Alliance??€™s CEO, told the City Council in a roundtable meeting last night. The state announced last week that it would not provide $55 million that the Alliance had been expecting in state revenue for the current fiscal year. “With two thirds of the year remaining, it will require draconian measures...
...Health Alliance??€™s CEO Dennis D. Keefe met Friday with members of the state’s administration, who confirmed that the state is reversing its commitment for certain funding this year, according to a letter he wrote to the community...
...Health Alliance??€™s $40 million in cuts, when combined with other reductions in education and health care management, total almost $55 million—more than 10 percent of its budget. Together the two hospital systems will bear roughly 20 percent of the administration’s emergency cuts, according to Keefe’s letter...
...Health Alliance??€™s operations that will not be touched is the Integrated Clerkship program, the hospital-training program launched in 2004 as part of the Harvard Medical School curriculum reform, according to Judith Klickstein, one of the organization’s senior vice presidents...
...letter to the community, Keefe said that the Health Alliance will be teaming up with the firm Ernst & Young to evaluate the hospital system’s overall structure and present proposals by the end of December. Keefe said that the Health Alliance??€”which owns three hospitals and 21 clinics based in Cambridge, Somerville and Boston—will be holding a series of Town Hall-style meetings throughout the coming months to receive input from those with a stake in its future ranging from employees to community leaders...